MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – U.S. Marines with 2d Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force commemorated the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa, at Camp ...

I’ve long been an aficionado of World War II history, and a sucker for decennial anniversaries. So I didn’t want to let the 80th anniversary of the underappreciated Battle of Tarawa pass unremarked.

Siwash the Duck during the Battle of Tarawa. (USMC photo) The Battle of Tarawa was 76 hours of pure death and destruction. In 1943, 18,000 United States Marines duked it out with more than 2,600 ...

As the American offensive prepared to claim the coral atoll of Tarawa in November of 1943, they were confident that their ...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (WITN) - Marines at Camp Lejeune paused on Tuesday to remember the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa. The 2d Marine Regiment started the day with a 10-mile hike and ended ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) - A sergeant from Mississippi was finally laid to rest 80 years after his death in World War II. Sergeant Harold Hammett left Hattiesburg for San Francisco in 1940.

More eloquent than words was the camera’s record of the carnage in the Gilberts. Capture of the atolls had cost the U.S.: >1,092 men killed, 2,680 wounded. Most casualties (95%) were marines who fell ...